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1. Would You Spend a Night with 6 Million Dead?
The accommodation rental website Airbnb is offering the winners of a Halloween-themed competition the chance to spend a night in the catacombs underneath the city of Paris. The “world’s largest grave” holds the remains of more than six million Parisians. Read more at BBC.
2. Fossil Teeth: Sign of Earlier Migration of Humans
The 47 human teeth found sealed in a cave, beneath 80,000-year-old stalagmites in Daoxian, south China, mean that modern humans migrated from Africa as much as 20,000 years earlier than previously recorded. Read more at BBC.
3. The Best Places in America to See Fossils
Speaking of fossils, October 14 is National Fossil Day. Smithsonian.com shares the best places in the United States to see fossils that capture the evolution of life on Earth.
4. Woolly Mammoth Bones Found in Michigan Soy Field
James Bristle and a friend were digging in his southern Michigan soybean field and unearthed part of a pelvis from a woolly mammoth that lived up to 15,000 years ago. Read more at Chicago Tribune.
5. Has the Biblical City of Sodom Been Found?
Excavations in the region of Tall el-Hammam in Jordan have revealed a city that dates to between 3,500 and 1,540 BC. Experts believe the remains of a “monstrous” Bronze Age city match the Biblical description of Sodom, the city destroyed by God for its sinfulness. Read more at Daily Mail.
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